From: Phil Payne 

> Trivia:  the executioner was always known as Hangman Ellis
> (and Ellis was my father's middle name).  The last executioner
> ran a pub in Kingston as his day job.

More trivia:

One of the last hangmen in the UK was Albert Pierpoint.  He was an
acquaintance of my mother's, and kept a pub in Oldham.  His family also
kept, I believe, the Old Silk Mill pub in Derby.

FWIW - "Derby", whether referring to the town, its shire, the
horse race or the suburb of Liverpool (West Derby) is _ALWAYS_ pronounced
"Darby".

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